PCSE Practice Question: Managing Operations in a Cloud Solution Environment
A company wants to receive real-time notifications when Security Command Center (SCC) detects a high-severity vulnerability in their Google Cloud projects. They need to integrate with their existing SIEM. Which approach should they use?
Answer choices
Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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Create a Pub/Sub notification config in SCC for the desired finding types and have the SIEM subscribe to the Pub/Sub topic.
SCC findings can be exported to Pub/Sub for real-time integration. The SIEM can subscribe to the Pub/Sub topic. Cloud Logging can also be used but SCC does not directly write findings to Logging. Cloud Functions alone would require Pub/Sub as trigger.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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Create a Pub/Sub notification config in SCC for the desired finding types and have the SIEM subscribe to the Pub/Sub topic.
Why this is correct
SCC supports Pub/Sub notifications for findings, enabling real-time SIEM integration.
- ✗
Use the SCC API to poll for new findings every minute and push them to the SIEM via a custom script.
Why it's wrong here
Polling is less efficient and not real-time compared to Pub/Sub push.
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Enable Event Threat Detection in SCC Premium tier and configure it to stream findings to Cloud Logging via a log sink.
Why it's wrong here
Event Threat Detection findings are within SCC; they are not automatically streamed to Cloud Logging.
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Configure SCC to send findings to Cloud Logging and set up a log-based metric that triggers a Cloud Function to send to the SIEM.
Why it's wrong here
SCC does not directly send findings to Cloud Logging; it uses Pub/Sub or BigQuery export.
Quick reference
Cloud Service Model Comparison
| Model | You Manage | Provider Manages | Examples |
|---|---|---|---|
| IaaS | OS, runtime, apps, data | Hardware, hypervisor, networking | EC2, Azure VMs, GCP Compute Engine |
| PaaS | Apps and data | OS, runtime, middleware, hardware | Elastic Beanstalk, Azure App Service |
| SaaS | Data and settings only | Everything else | Microsoft 365, Salesforce, Workday |
| FaaS / Serverless | Function code only | Infra, scaling, runtime | Lambda, Azure Functions, Cloud Run |
| CaaS | Containers and apps | Kubernetes, OS, hardware | EKS, AKS, GKE |
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